By Yannis Anifantis

The exemption from participation in pharmaceutical expenses for all low pensioners is requested with a question submitted this afternoon to the Ministries of Health and Labor 8 MPs of the ND.

This is the second group intervention by members of the parliamentary group of the majority in the parliament, almost two weeks after the question of the “11” about the bad loans to the Minister of Finance.

The question to the Ministers Adoni Georgiadis and Niki Kerameos signed this time by a group of 8 MPs, (Charalambos Athanasiou, Ioannis Andrianos, Anastasios Dimoshakis, Theophilos Leontaridis, Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos, Georgios Karasmanis, Ioannis Paschalidis, Miltiadis Chrysomallis), completely different from the group that signed the question to the Ministry of Finance.

According to the text of the question, the 8 MPs request to extend the exemption of pharmaceutical expenses and to be applied not only to the old beneficiaries of EKAS but to all low-income pensioners who currently meet the criteria of the abolished EKAS.

In fact, they argue that if the exemption is extended to all low-pensioners, it will ease “the cost of living of this particular social group that is particularly affected by the accuracy and many times has taken on the support of other members of the household who are in poverty or have a disability”.

Read the question HERE

Parliamentary sources for the “8” question

Parliamentary sources of the majority, however, report that the question is part of the parliamentary mission of the deputies.